| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: painted on his face. "Can't I? Don't you bank on that. I can
prove all I need to, and your friends will prove the rest.
They'll be falling all over themselves to tell what they
know--and Mr.Dailey will be holding the sack again, while Leroy
and the rest are slipping out."
The outlaw sprang to his feet, white to the lips.
"It's a damned lie. Leroy would never--" He stopped, again just
in time to bite back the confession hovering on his lips. But he
had told what Collins wanted to know.
The curtain parted, and a figure darkened the doorway--a slender,
lithe figure that moved on springs. Out of its sardonic,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: its single window, and a lady with a great deal of fair hair
and uncovered neck smiling at her from a pink bed on which
an immense powder-puff trailed.
"You don't mind, do you? He costs such a frightful lot that
I can't afford to send him off," Mrs. Birch explained,
extending a thickly-ringed hand to Anna, and leaving her in
doubt as to whether the person alluded to were her
masseur or her husband. Before a reply was possible there
was a convulsive stir beneath the pink expanse, and
something that resembled another powder-puff hurled itself
at Anna with a volley of sounds like the popping of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: Galazi beat them back, and they rested awhile. Then Galazi said, "Let
us cut meat from the bull with a spear."
So they cut meat from the bull, and when they had finished Galazi
motioned to the wolves, and they fell upon the carcase, fighting
furiously. In a little while nothing was left except the larger bones,
and yet each wolf had but a little.
Then they went back to the cave and slept.
Afterwards Umslopogaas told Galazi all his tale, and Galazi asked him
if he would abide with him and be his brother, and rule with him over
the wolf-kind, or seek his father Mopo at the kraal of Chaka.
Umslopogaas said that it was rather in his mind to seek his sister
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